This Tamiya kit has been in progress since early last year. I’ve never been confident in my zimmerit skills and an old set of Cavalier zimmerit was used. The Cavalier set had some problems the upside being I finally got passable at doing my own zimmerit with epoxy putty to fix the fit problems. Apart from the zimmerit the only other AM is PE for the engine deck screens. Finally decided it was time to get this model off the shelf last month and finish it. Here is where I’m at right now.
The kit was painted with Tamiya XF-88, XF-89 and XF-90 over a black shadow coat. This tank doesn’t belong to any unit that I know of and made up the camouflage scheme. The weathering has mainly been focused on the lower hull for right now. I used mainly Ammo products to dirty the lower hull and tracks. I wanted to go for a dried mud look and not overdo the mud. A graphite pencil was used to make polished metal where the road wheels would contact with the tracks.
Edit: I forgot to state the model is far from finished. There’s still a lot of weathering to do on the upper hull chipping, streaking, fuel stains, jack needs mounted, cleaning rods need some work etc.